How to put back a number-based index
Michael Selik
michael.selik at gmail.com
Fri May 13 15:56:17 EDT 2016
In order to preserve your index after the aggregation, you need to make
sure it is considered a data column (via reset_index) and then choose how
your aggregation will operate on that column.
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:29 PM David Shi <davidgshi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello, Michael,
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> Why reset_index before grouping?
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> Regards.
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> David
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> On Friday, 13 May 2016, 17:57, Michael Selik <michael.selik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:27 PM David Shi via Python-list <
> python-list at python.org> wrote:
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> I lost my indexes after grouping in Pandas.
> I managed to rest_index and got back the index column.
> But How can I get back a index row?
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> Was the grouping an aggregation? If so, the original indexes are
> meaningless. What you could do is reset_index before the grouping and when
> you aggregate decide how to handle the formerly-known-as-index column (min,
> max, mean, ?).
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